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Plants for USDA Zone 5

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106 matches for Zone 5

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Potato plant growing in a garden row with yellow tubers visible beside green foliage

Vegetables

Potato: Reliable Tubers For Almost Any Yard

Solanum tuberosum

Gardeners treat potatoes like simple ground-dwelling crops, but they are cool-season, tuber-forming perennials grown as annuals…

Grown as annual in Zones 3-10
Redbud tree in full spring bloom with pink and magenta flowers covering bare branches

Trees

Redbud Tree (Eastern Redbud) Care Guide

Cercis canadensis

Gardeners who want spring color without the fuss of high-maintenance flowering trees should look at the Redbud tree (Cercis…

USDA Zones 4-9
Multi-trunk River Birch tree with peeling salmon-brown bark growing in a lawn near a rain garden

Trees

River Birch for Wet or Heavy Soils

Betula nigra

River Birch (Betula nigra) is a fast-growing, heat-tolerant birch tree for Zones 4-9 that thrives in moist or heavy clay soils…

USDA Zones 4–9
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